001Thank you all very much. That sounds very good. >> We have a second for that. >> Second. >> Have a second by Mr. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. We do have an approved agenda. And so having an approved agenda, we have our recognitions and we have our one good thing initiative. Mr. >> Yes. Come on, Mr. Chairman. So we uh tonight we're starting something new that we've not done. What we recognize we're hiding in it one good thing and recognizing one good thing is happening here in our school and our communities making an impact all around. And tonight we're here recognize giving words a program here high school for the work they're doing. I'm going to ask Eddie and Jenny Brown
002to come up. Shane Pet. [applause] So um as many folks have seen ABC national news about the auto tech program upgrading that is in so many ways to the But I think just as much for our students and to our community to see just the powerful piece that that brings giving back to this community. I think you all are affecting lives from the stand of single moms but I think goes far beyond single mothers. When I walk in and I see tears coming down the faces, it's a powerful thing to help build. So today, we just want to say thank you and recognize you for one good thing. Thank you. [applause] >> [applause] >> give you all a big shout out on social media. If we could with all the schoolers right here. >> So,
003just as we're getting in order. So, u Eddie and and Jimmy began this in the driveway of their homes. One car said, "How can we help make a difference?" And their son happened to be in the automotive program. And from that conversation led to conversations within the program from Shane, Pete, and Ernie, who's not here tonight, who's retired, but that's really how it all came together. small idea to one great thing. So, thank you all for everything. Let's give them a round of applause. [applause] All right, here we go. taking the photo, two [applause] mad like 430 knew something like that. So y so um before we go on to our next point for folks who are looking for an opportune moment to not have to say for the whole meeting. >> Thank you all
004again. >> Thank you all. >> So on to presentations. So, I see schoolboard appreciation. >> Yes. So, we're going to show a little video, but this is February is school board appreciation month, and we're very grateful for our school board who really supports our our school division, our staff, students, and families. So, we put together a short video here as a tribute just to say thank you. Mr. Wolf, do you like to play that? >> Thank you school board for all you do. >> Thank you board. >> Thank you school board from all the teachers at Trillians Elementary. >> Thank you school board for all you do. Thank you, school board, for all you do for Cafe. >> School board, [music] thank you so much for your continued support. The trailblazers know that we can
005always count on you to look out for our students, our staff, and our families, and we appreciate everything that you do. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, school board, for everything you do. >> Thank you, school board, for all you do. Just want to reach out. Thank you guys for learning. [music] It's amazing to work for a school board that has our back every step of the way and we're just so lucky to have you guys as part of public schools. >> Thank you school board from TJ. >> Thank you school board. >> Thank you guys for all the love and support that you give us each and every day here at Moms and Knuckles. You guys are awesome and we can't do without you. So just we hope you have a great uh
006school boy appreciation and thank you for everything. two. >> Thank you. >> The office staff at MES. Thanks the school board. >> Thank you school board. On behalf of Trillians Elementary want to thank you for all you do for us, for our students, our staff, and our families. We appreciate the support. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, school board, for all you do. School board members, thank you for your genuine continued support of our students, our schools, and our community. We sincerely appreciate all that you do to serve and what you mean in our [music] community. >> Thank you, school board, for what you do for LCMS. >> From the LCMS Health and PE department, >> thank you for our new space. >> Thank you so much, school board. from the LCMS music department.
007Thanks so much for all your support. >> LCMS, thanks you for your continued support. >> Thank you for the opportunity to serve this community and this wonderful school. And thank you for all you do for team LCPS [music] teachers. Thank you for everything you do. >> Thank you school board for all you do for LCS. The central office thanks you for all that you do at team LCPS. [music] >> Thank you school board for everything that you do and it is a pleasure to work with you guys. Thank you >> to our Louisa County School Board. I want to say thank you. Thank you for your tremendous support of our entire team. It is felt and it is appreciated. And I would also like to say thank you for your passion and your desire to
008make sure Louisa County Public Schools leads the way. [applause] So we want to thank Jacob Capazello right here on the front row for putting that video together. Great job. [applause] And as you can see, thank you from all of us at team LCPS. We appreciate what you do. Thank you. >> I know. [laughter] >> So, on to school construction updates. >> Good evening, gentlemen. >> Good evening. >> Wait for my partner crime to get up here. I feel lonely if he's not by my side. Um so um the uh middle school project as you know is um the building is complete. We've opened that. So no additional pictures of that. We're in phase six of that project. And what phase six is is uh the pods that were out here that we were using uh
009are going to be uh you know taken out, relocated uh to different locations. So, that's kind of where we are starting to prep that now, taking the underpainting off of the the trailers and beginning that process uh to get those moved out of here. Um we are doing a walk through tomorrow um with our punch list that we had, you know, after any construction project, you always walk back through with with your contractor and say, "Nope, we need to fix this. Nope, we don't like this. I got to get this redone." And so, we've been working with them uh on that. And so we'll do a walk through tomorrow to they've completed everything. So we need to go and verify that all that's actually done to our satisfaction. So moving on to the uh CTE
010building. Um so first thing I want to tell you is obviously we've we've missed some time because of the weather and I'm sure that has um potentially um made some of you a little nervous that you we're going to fall behind uh on this on this project. Um I want to put you at ease. Uh we are not behind. Uh we are uh still uh looking very good uh as far as um meeting the deadline for this project. Uh we were uh well ahead of schedule uh on this uh project up to this point and we're still ahead of schedule. Uh so we don't really anticipate the snow um you know this week and a half of of not really having anything done uh affecting our timeline whatsoever. Um you know one thing to note
011so just some a few images uh from the exterior of the building. Um if you notice these walls like these are to height right? So you know this is the front of the building looking at it from the high school right there. bus loop. Uh we are about 65% done with the block work. Okay, so pretty significant uh work has been completed. Um and so they break this building into three uh sections. There's a A section which is the very front part of the building, a B which is the middle, and the C which is the the back end closest to the high school. Um C and B are essentially up to roof height. Uh the only thing that's left in there are the interior walls that we need to do, blocking off some of
012the, you know, the classroom walls, uh those type of things. Uh section A, which is in the front up closest to the road, uh those walls are up about 4 foot. Um but, you know, we're still again ahead of where we need to be. Uh this is kind of showing the back of the building. So you can see, uh the wall height here is much uh higher. You know, this is 20 22 feet. some 20 something feet tall. So it's pretty pretty tall. So 21 not 22 feet. So thanks. Um so we are the next thing we're actually going to be waiting on is getting the steel in. Um and so again, no concerns over that. The steel has been ordered and we're expecting that uh in soon. And so you'll start to see that
013roof uh structure going together. Uh this shows you the uh this is inside uh up where the the main office uh is and looking back towards the high school. And I just wanted to to show you this to to I know it's very confusing looking at it. Uh but just to show you the heights. So again, the left side is the tall side of the building uh where all the shops and things are. So you can see how tall that that block wall is there. And then the right side is the front uh the uh east side of the building where it's your more of your typical classrooms uh over on that side of the building. And so those are up to height as well. So overall everything is looking great. Um and you know
014we'll have our meeting again tomorrow kind of get caught up on uh what their their twoe look ahead. But uh again we are we're in good shape. So, I don't want anyone to to think that because of the snow we're getting behind because we're we're absolutely not. >> All right. So, no new change orders this time for uh CTE. Um the on the list that you have in your packets, you'll see the uh change order that was approved last board meeting. It was just updating it. Uh currently, we have spent 9,148,93927 on the CTE project. that represents 23.29% of our budget. Uh we have completed 31.63% of the project. Um we are on time and under budget. Uh I have included the uh middle school numbers in there just for just as we move along.
015Very small increments at this point uh because we're finishing up change orders and as David said also the items that they need to uh correct. So, it's kind of a a lot slower, but the information is still there for you. Uh, there's documentation for two uh payments to RRM this month. Um, and subject to your questions, that concludes our presentation. >> Any questions from the board? Only question I have is how many weather days we added to the calendar? Um, so I think they typically average uh they build in three weather days a month. Um, you know, for this project uh and so that's why again we're well ahead of where we need >> I mean as the ground was dry that was not good for farmers and our lawns but >> good for that
016building >> for that building. now that we're getting that's great for us. But >> yeah, and one thing to kind of point out too, like just think about the timeline. So when we first started, you know, they were working six days a week. >> Uh they're not doing that now because they don't need to do it. If we got behind and needed to, they would obviously bring in other questions. >> Thank you. And our next presentation is the proposed um budget. >> All right. Well, thank you for allowing me to be able to present this tonight. It's always exciting to present um what our budget's going to look like, but also look back at where we've been and what we've accomplished and where we want to be. So tonight we present to you um our
017budget FY27 uh superintendent budget and we always remember we're on a journey to greatness in all we do and uh we say we say hey we're great in some things but we got to continue to get better every day and how do we do that do that through a really um laser focused mission and as we talk about our mission and vision we want to be that worldclass forwardinking school division that school division is going to be the model school division of the future and we say simply put what does that We want to be a school division where every student is challenged to reach his or her maximum potential. And we really want to look at doing that through the incorporation of the five C's. Making sure when our students leave us, they're able
018to communicate effectively. They can think critically. They collaborate well with others. They're creative and certainly most important in my mind, they're good people, good citizens as they walk away from Louisa County Public Schools. So, let's take a closer look at our budgets back. We're going to look back nine years as uh the from my first budget with you all as superintendent to now. And what does that look like as far as going towards that mission in that vision? We launched the LCPS cyber security program bringing opportunities for our students. We know all of these vacant jobs here in Virginia in cyber security. Additional reading IAS for our reading academy to help make sure our students are getting that individual attention. additional talented and gifted teachers, making sure we had full-time teachers, not halftime, at all
019of our elementary schools. We also had the onetoone initiative for our prek program through 12th grade, making sure every student has their own device. And also the create creation of our steam labs at our elementary schools where our students can really get in and focus on science, technology, engineering, art, and math in our steam labs at our elementary schools. the addition of our CTE directors and a focus on CTE and workforce development and then added focus on specialty sped programs to really enhance our programs across the division and the addition of our American Sign Language class at the middle school in the high school which has become one of our most popular courses that we have at the high school and also the creation of the state-of-the-art creation station at Louisa County Middle School really
020focusing in honing in on the five C's getting more and more advanced enhanced with the technology as well. And then our Little Lions Learning Lab as we try to keep up with the national shortage, teacher crisis shortage. Uh Louisa short certainly not immune to that. We've got to make sure we have our own pipeline. And how can we do that? We prepare them here within our division, but also meanwhile providing our staff with child care at a very cheap price. Continued implementation of the five C's. You heard me say that a lot already, but that's one of the most important things we do is keep the five C's in the focus of what we're doing. also the addition of extracurricular programs such as esports, LCMS volleyball, and girls wrestling as well. And we're going to
021continue to look and expand our middle school sports as well. Moving forward, began the LCHS media productions program, something to really give our students an upper hand on many of those opportunities out there by gaining these real life experiences. Also, the addition of our crisis and school counselors with the increased priority on our mental health. Again, Louisa is not immune to the mental health issues that are out there um in our community and far beyond and looking to make sure we continue to stay on top of the supports we can give. The addition of our four resource officers, I'm sorry, the addition of four more resource officers to give us a seven divisionwide. And I say this every time I get a chance, we were the first school division in the Commonwealth to have a
022school resource officer in every school to really build those relationships pre-K through 12th grade. We expanded our technology coaches team. Now we have one per school throughout the school division and the creation of our steam on the scene trailer. Many of you have seen that as we can take this around all throughout our community and beyond to give our students the opportunity to dive in. And then the addition of our weapons detectors, a proactive move that the school board made to make sure we're out in front as well to keep our schools as safe as possible. And then the addition of our outdoor classrooms uh all across the division. You can see these at all of our schools where students can now go outside, teachers can go outside, have lessons learned in these outdoor classrooms.
023And then building classrooms of the future, making sure our classrooms do have the most updated technology so we can stay on top. They can be on top of where we are in the world and again get out there and lead the way. Creation of our state-of-the-art impact studio, which opened up last year at Louisa County High School. It's an amazing space. Many of you have seen it. But again, really pushing to make sure the 5C's are in the forefront. And then also the hiring of additional staff to meet enrollment needs. As our enrollment continues to grow, our county continues to grow, the staffing is going to have to grow with it as well. And we've been able to do that to help meet those enrollment needs. And then opening of the brand new state-of-the-art Louisa
024County middle school and alternative education instructional wing. Something we're all proud of is just opened it up just at the beginning of January. We're in that space and it's a great space to expand and grow at our middle school. And then something I know you're very proud of. We launched our highly anticipated LCHS JOTC program. And I say I know you're very proud of it because it's something we've been trying to get for nine years and we finally were able to put it into action. We're very excited about that. And then the continued focus on compensation increases. We say our people are our most valuable resources and we got to make sure we take care of our people so we can keep them here, take care of them and they can take care of all
025of our all of our students. So, that's a closer look at the last last 10 budgets or nine budgets. And if you take a look at that list and how we've really tried to make sure we've honed in on our mission and vision to be that worldclass forwardthinking school division that could be the model of school divisions of the future and making sure that we're challenging every student to reach their maximum potential. You can see on that list the many programs that continue to push and give students opportunities all across the board. So, we're very proud of what that is. And we thank you for the support and the entire community for their support of our school division through these last nine budgets. And then we want to take a minute and say, all right,
026let's take a look. What are some things that we've done over the last year? And we've got we've narrowed it down to 50. What are 50 things that we've done here in our school division that we're very proud of? First of all, all six of our schools rated fully accredited by the VDOE nine years in a row. And then we were ranked second out of 133 school divisions in the state for the highest percentage of distinguished schools within our school division. Something we're proud of. Also, we distributed a record amount of $37,000 of 5C's schoolboard and LEF innovation grants says the school board partnered with the Louisiana Education Foundation to give out the 5C's grants to make the 5C's come to life in the classroom. and then 255 CTE completers in the class of 2025
027with more than 70 of those students honored at CTE signing day. And then we take a look at JW Elementary School hosted Zootopia which brought out over,200 attendees and again really bringing the five C's to life. And then making a difference through our kindness days in the community. something we take great pride in, something that I really is near and dear to my heart is making sure we're out here in this community taking care of one another and our students getting out in the community in our kindness days. And then the Bobcats bringing home the hardware and football and baseball, boys and girls track, softball, boys cross country, girls cross country, wrestling, and girls basketball. All bringing home the hardware. Great job by the middle school athletes. and then planned and hosted the first ever
028regional civics be for all local middle school students. And when we say all, we were the only two schools in the entire state that hosted this past year getting together with our chamber of commerce and making this happen. And so all of our all students across the state were coming here to compete, which was a really phenomenal event. And then we had a record number of family events at Travillians Elementary School. just a few but back to school cookout, breakfast and books, market market night and a whole lot more. Getting our families involved in our school division and then 39 IAS are currently in our IIA toteer pipeline with the Grand Can with Grand Canyon University with two more graduates in our teacher training academy. So those this is something we really continue to expand,
029continue to grow our own and something that we're extremely proud of right here being able to do that in Louisa County. Hosted the 2025 LCPS job fair which we conducted 148 interviews right here on site and again getting the best of the best making sure we're getting the great people here within our community to be a part of who we are so we can continue to grow and expand. And then the Bobcat band earned a superior rating and that's a phenomenal accomplishment at the state assessments. Kudos to them. And then our LCPS nutrition expan nutrition team expanded farm to school to all four of our elementary schools growing crops and then fixing the meals and eating them in the cafeteria. And then TJ received a distinguished school rating from the Virginia Department of Education. Kudos
030to Thomas Jefferson Elementary School on the highest rating. Also, we had successful appreciation nights in the jungle with Dr. South Hall this year and also had our first ever drone show as we celebrated our veterans and our military in our community Friday night in the jungle. At Louisa County Middle School, they led the nation for the sixth straight year with 10,700 positive messages to one another, lifting each other up and taking care of one another. Something we have to continue to make a priority. And then the LCMS Bobcat baristas expanded their services now selling coffee, tea, and baked goods as they learn life skills and where they're going to go out into our world and be successful. And then at also at Bobcat Pride at the middle school, math, they were 8% higher than the
031state average. In reading, they were 6% higher than the state average. Science 8% and history 13%. Great job to our Bobcats. And then TJES earned the highest annual pass rate in the entire region in math at 90%. Well done. And in Mosn Knuckles Elementary School, our epic foxes, they were they increased their reading scores this year by 7%, their math scores by 6%, science 9%, and history by 8%. Well done by the Foxes. And then TEES had the highest annual pass rate in reading and science in the region. Way to go, Eagles. Great job. And then our LCPS annual pass rate in English across the division was 8% higher than the state average. Something to be proud of. Our Patriot Point at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. It's a one-of-a-kind nature playscape that really helps our
032students learn about enjoying nature, but also helps them with their mental health as well. Getting them off of devices and out into the woods, out into the play. and then hosted our second annual a conservation day at the Louisa Fairgrounds for all of our fifth grade students. Uh this is the second annual event and it was another big hit and we thank Miss Hoffman for all of her work to help with that as well. LCHS earned region 5 create creating excellence award from the VDOE for our auto tech program. First place in region five earned by Louisa County High School. Also, Louisa County Public Schools earned first place in workforce readiness across the entire state from the VSBA. That's what we want to do. We want to make our students workforce ready because whether they're
033going to college, whether they're going to the military, they're all going to end up going to work at some point, getting them workforce ready. That's really something we're really proud of. LCPS Transportation established the video review system to make sure our drivers can really focus on the road and make sure that our students are safe on our buses and doing what they're they're supposed to be doing. also integrating AI at LCPS. We're proud to be able to be say we're out in front. At least we're chasing to be out in front because I'm not sure you can ever be in front of AI. But we have 474 of our staff members active in AI, active AI users and also 2400 unique spaces being created and and and all being developed there at the LCPS AI
034hub bringing it all together. something we're proud of and something we'll continue to move very quickly along the way. Moss Knuckles Elementary School increased their pass advance scores by 40% this past year. Something to really be proud of, pushing all students to reach their maximum potential. And how about those trailblazers? Their reading scores 8% higher than the state average. Math was 17% higher than the state average. Science 10% and history 18% as well. Way to go trailblazers. And then the LCHS class of 2025 students received more than a half a million dollars in local community scholarships from this community, this Louisa community that takes care of one another. A half a million dollars in scholarships. And then our our division had a 7% chronic absenteeism rate. That's 8% better than the 15% state average. Well
035done across the board, our attendance folks and everyone involved in making that happen. We need our students in front of us every day. And our Lions leading the way. Their reading scores were 18% higher than the state average. Math was 23% higher than the state average. And science 17% higher than the state average. The Lions getting it done as they take them to the graduation stage. And then over at Travillians Elementary School, they earned the distinguished school rating from the VDOE as well. Well done by the Eagles, getting the highest rating uh for any school division. And then the uh school division as a whole raised $30,000 for Grayson County Public Schools. Many in this room were a part of all of that as as we for our kindness for the Commonwealth campaign uh helping
036them after hurricane relief in Southwest Virginia. LCPS annual rate in math is 84%. That's 12% higher than the state average. Way to go to our math folks getting it done. And then we hosted one book, one Louisa at the Gutsland Drive-In, bringing out over,200 families to attend this event and be a part of something special with LCPS after everyone read the same book. And then LCHS earned a distinguished school rating as well. Louisa County High School getting the highest rating you can get from the Virginia Department of Education. And then LCPS communications worked with local media outlets to secure 94 news stories about positive activities and programs at LCPS. Why is this important? We need to be able to brag on what our teachers and the great things that all of our employees are doing
037in the classroom, doing in the cafeteria, doing on the court, doing it on the buses, whatever it is, we need to be able to brag about it because they're working hard and they're getting it done and we love to be able to brag about it. And then our proud Patriots. They were 18% above the state average over at TJ in math, 8% higher in reading. They were 3% in science, and 13% in history, above the state average. Great job to our patriots. LCPS nutrition ended the year with more than $1 million in the fund balance. That's a big big deal. As costs have be kept rising, one of the things that you're not going to hear me say tonight is that we need to add more money into our cafeteria because It's sustaining itself and
038Randy Herman on that picture of her right there is a big reason and her team for making all of that happen. Tremendous job. >> Jes continues its egg in the classroom focus. Denna Jwitt, something we love. They got their bees, they got their chickens, and they have their little chicken tenders, which we all like. And TJ hosted Toy Story night with more than 800 attendees. That's a great picture of the crew right there. Great job, Thomas Jefferson. >> And then 26 students graduated from the alternative education program this past year. That's 26 opportunities of really finding their their passion, finding their mission, and finding a way to make sure they can reach their maximum potential. Well done. And LCPS CTE, they were awarded the Virginia Governor's Innovation Competition Equipment Grant to secure high demand industry
039tools. Not every school received this. LCHS went after it. LCPS went after it and they got the award. Great job. And then this is something we all love is helping make sure our second graders and fifth graders are able to swim and giving them water safety lessons and providing them with swimming lessons. All of our second grade and fifth grade across the division. And then we finished number one in the regional math hoops competition. And what does that mean? The regional means all of DC, all of Maryland, and all of Virginia. Our Louisa County middle school team hoops team finished first math hoops uh in the region. Well done. And tees leading the way with 13% higher on their reading scores in the state average, 17% in math, 20% in science, and 24% in history.
040Again, well done Eagles. And Miss Herman and her team, you got LCPS on the Today Show for increasing breakfast participation. and the only school chosen across the country on Giving Tuesday. Um they were recognized for the great work that they're doing to make sure our students are fed and starting out with a great morning. We also hosted our annual tournament of champions and little feet meet something that Dr. Alpern and her team have worked very hard on to bring it here to Louisa and coach Alpurn is very competitive and likes to keep us on the winning track. And then last but not least, the construction continues on our state-of-the-art CTE center. Something we're all looking forward to get opening just across the way. And we had our presentation right before this, but it's well underway.
041And it's exciting to know that within next year, a little over a year and a half, we're going to be opening that building to students and be and teachers and having lessons flying in that in that building. So, as you can see, a lot of things happening here in Louisa County Public Schools. many people sitting behind me are are a part of that and all the people out there as team LCPS our family are making it happen in the schools in the classroom and getting it done and it's something we're very proud of and we thank you for your support of our budgets uh as we move forward. So with that being said I would like to talk to you a little bit about the 2627 budget outlook. So tonight I'm going to talk to
042you about four components. one, where are we? Two, operational increases with three three po portions of that compensation increases. And then moving ahead, what's it going to look like beyond the 2627 budget. So, first, let's talk about where are we? What this what this is looking at are things that we've already had to do within this school year because of enrollment or other factors that we've already had to make happen. So, where are we? So, back in August, uh, we had to add four elementary teachers, one elementary teacher per school due to enrollment increases, and we also had to add two bus drivers. Those those are things that we've already asked for the appropriation for this year and been granted by the supervisors. And then it will go into the budget for next year, right
043at $426,000 from segment one, which is where are we? And then let's look at segment two, operations. And we first think about operations. Let's talk a little bit about the insurance piece. Well, right now we're looking at workers compensation increase uh at about 51,000. But the healthc care insurance, we haven't received those um those bids back. We don't know exactly what that's going to look like for the increase for health care. That usually comes back in midFebruary, late February. So, we should have that by the next budget presentation. And then our earthquake insurance, we're waiting on that as well. Usually that goes up just a little bit every year as well. So, we'll be getting that to you as well. But right now, we have put a 2B determined in there. I will say the
044county has put in a 10% placeholder for the health insurance u just just see where we are. Hopefully it will be um much less than 10% but that's not something that we we know of at this point but we will have that certainly by the next time we present the budget. And then segment 2B that's going to be the personnel additions. and the personnel additions I present to you tonight are really personnel additions uh with the opening of the middle school addition things we're going to need for that middle school edition. So first uh one of the items we're going to need is a technician IT technician. So you see $87,000 there. That's all in. That means salary, benefits, the whole package at 87,000. Uh this position will be needed as well when we move
045into the CTE center. And we'll be sharing some of those responsibilities with that as well. Two part-time cafeteria workers um with the new cafeteria space uh at the middle school. We'll be adding two part-time cafeteria workers there as well. An egg teacher. So we have a new a space in that facility which we're excited about. So we'll be adding the agriculture teacher and um and remember the the number beside of there is the salary plus all the benefits it's all in. And then the last piece are the two custodians for that building as well. Um as we have such more space to clean at this point um adding our two custodians. So when we look at that that's about $314,000 um moving into next year for these positions. And then we look at segment 2C.
046Um really looking at just one aspect and that's going to be our utilities. We're going to ask for an increase of right at $75,000 for the increase in utilities. Much of that will be for the addition at the middle school adding that addition on and the utilities that are going to come along u with that addition along with some increases um in our others as well. So, from the operations side, looking at it right at $440,000 plus the health care. Again, we don't know what that's going to be. The county's put a 10% placeholder in there for that, but uh 440 plus the health care for for operation segment two. And then let's talk about segment three. These are going to be our compensation increases. And I say this, one of the things I say
047all the time to you, you our people are our most important and most valuable resource. And we have to take care of them. We got to make sure we're competitive and competing um with all the other school divisions out there for our employees. So, when we take a look at that, we take a compensation increase for our certified staff, all our certificated staff, 3% plus a step increase, which is right at 2.5 million for that step increase and 3% increase. And then a 4% increase for our classified staff at $736,000. So looking at again [clears throat] the 4% for our classified staff. And then if you remember last year we came to you and said we would like to begin to to increase our master's u degree supplements our doctors to make them more competitive
048because we had done a study and we realized that we wanted to try to do this over three years. So last year we um budgeted 58 more,000. This year we're going to do another 58,000 and next year we'll do the final third at 58,000 as well to really bump our M's and doctorate degrees as well as our bachelor's plus 15 so we can be competitive with other school divisions um out there as well. And then the last piece is a secretary scale adjustment at 185,000 looking at adjusting our secretary scale. Over the past several years, we've looked at our bus drivers, our custodians, we've looked at um our cafeteria workers, and now we wanted to look and and look at our secretary scale as well and get that competitive um and get them up just
049above the average uh within those were competing around us. So, with that, that's right at 3.52 u million dollars for the compensation increases. And again, I can't say this enough. Taking care of our people, taking care of our most valuable resources, our people, is is the most important thing we can do as we take care of each other and move forward and continue to lead the way. So, [clears throat] segment one, where are we? 426,000. Those operational increases, the health insurance, the additional personnel, the utilities, 440,000, and then the compensation increases at 3.5. Now, what what does our state funding look like? So, I want to step I want to explain this a little bit because this uh is not complicated, but can get complicated and confusing. Um, so our LCI, our local composite index
050um went up this year. That mean that means the ability for your community to pay. And so, if it goes up, that means we get less money from the state. We we have to take care of more of our our side from the lo locality. So with that being said, our state funding came back and I have two asterisks by it and I'll explain why in a second at six at 963,000 to the good. And what that means is after in comparing to last year what we received from the state, we received 963,000 more in Governor Yncan's budget. Now I need to say that that's off of Governor Yncan's budget because Governor Spanberger, they haven't put in the amendments for her budget yet. So, we are presenting this off of the original budget that was
051placed out there. So, all of this is based on the state funding is based off of Governor Yncan's budget before he left office. We are anticipating Governor Spanberger to be putting out her amendments to the budget uh in very soon. But what this means is compared to last year's budget, it came in over about 963,000, which means it filled the hole for the LCI that was put in. And we think the LCI difference was between 1.8 8 and $2 million and plus we we were able to get 963 additional dollars. We were very concerned about the LCI going up and being able to come out to the positive from the state funding was a real benefit and something we were really excited to see when we saw that happen. And then we're also going to
052have some VRS savings coming into this year at $490,000. So that's going to be an additional savings as well. So at the end, what does that mean? we would be asking the locality for 2.933 million plus our health care which last year came in right around zero. So fingers crossed hopefully that will happen again but if not it'll be plus the health care as well. So then I said I want to look at move moving ahead vision. What are where are we headed? What are we continuing beyond the FY27 budget? And I want to tell you the first one we're proud of and I had to put it on there because it's been on there for so long we had to just mark it off. Had to show you is the JROTC program because again
053nine years strong. We've been trying to get that program. We finally got it. And you've heard me say this for nine straight years. We're going to get it this year. We're going to get it this year. And um and we got it. And we're proud of it. And uh we're excited about that. But continued focus on the five C's. We we we know and we believe that those are going to be the key components as we move into a world of jobs that we don't know what they look like just yet. Making sure our students have those components. And then CTE program expansion through creation of a comprehensive CTE center. That's something that's going to be coming at us next year. Additional personnel. As we open up the building, we're going to need the additional
054personnel going into the building for the programs that will be there. So, we'll be looking at that as we move beyond this budget and into the next budget. And then continue focus on mental health resources. I'm continuing to focus on making sure we're taking care of our people and uh making sure we have the supports in place to take care of our people. in addition of the LCMS extracurricular opportunities. You know, one of the things that we're looking at as we expand and our the turf fields that the county are putting in back here behind the middle school um are going to create some opportunities for us to expand some of our programs such as boys and girls soccer at the middle school level. something we want to do. We want to look at more
055feeder programs to keep them from when they're coming out of the little league ranks and they have that middle ranks in the middle school that we don't lose kids in that in their participation. So, we're going to begin to really focus in on what are those feeder programs we need to add. And boys and girls soccer are going to be one of the things that I'm coming to you about maybe even this coming school year potentially once we can get the fields open and we can see how all that's going to operate. But we're excited about that. and then continue focus on compensation. Um, again, we have to continue to be competitive. I I I joke uh with with a gentleman here that came tonight. I I saw him and spoke to him. I've been
056trying to get his son to come work for us because he's a phenomenal teacher and he's working in a neighboring county, and I'm I I can't say I've been trying to steal him, but I've been trying to steal him. And uh we got to make sure we keep our compet compensation competitive so we can pull those people back here and make sure they stay here in Louisa and get them here. And so what are those budget impacts? What's the final piece of that? So looking again, where are we? 426,000 for the teachers and bus drivers we added at the beginning of the year, 440,000 plus the health care for the physicians adding into opening of our new addition uh plus the health care and the utilities and then the segment three our compensation increases for
057the coming year. So, with that being said, again, summarizing and making it clear that 963,000 could change. And in fact, it will change. And whether that's going to be up or down, that's yet to be seen. We feel like we may get a little bit more funding from the state, but we're not sure about that. That's something we're going to keep an eye on. And then the VRS savings as well um as we go into uh the next school year. So again, tonight I stand before you presenting a budget that would be requesting right at $2.9 million plus our healthcare uh for the next school year. And with that being said, I just remind you uh of the uncertainty concerning the governor's budget um it's always uncertain because when the budget when the governor presents
058a budget, it goes to the general assembly. But in years where there's a new governor that comes in after a budget's been presented, it's even more uncertainty. And so this year, you just want to be reminded that these are going to change potentially as we get into um the go the governor's uh Spanberger's amendments um to the budget that's been presented. And with all that being said, I hope that vision came out and rang loud as we want to make sure we're the worldass forwardinking school division. One that's we're all going to be proud of as we're the model of the school divisions of the future and one that's going to challenge every student to reach their maximum potential. And tonight, I hope I present a budget to you that we feel um is really
059going to reach that vision and that mission and make sure that Louisa County continues to lead the way. So, thank you for for your time. >> So, any questions? >> How did the VRS savings materialize? >> Yeah. So, Mr. Baker, you want to explain that just a just a bit? The GRS board asked for a rate decrease because they've done so well in investments and the number of people that are drawing from it has decreased because not getting in a lot of detail but there are more people in the hybrid plan now than people in the original plan. So we always as close as an estimate as we can get good. >> We're we're very glad to get the savings. Yes. Other questions? >> I I was going to ask about the uh local composite
060index and I you you were indicating it was coming down. Um excuse me. Ours is going up so we'll be paying uh locally more. Do do I I know you probably had a conversation with your peer in the county government. What what have y'all discussed about the that revenue stream? >> Yeah. Well, we were we were concerned when we saw our composite index go up before we we saw the budget come out because we knew it was going to be somewhere 1.82 million dollar hole to fill because of the increase uh in the composite index and we're certainly were glad to see the budget the state budget fill that gap plus give us a little more money. But I think it's something we're going to need to pay attention to over the next several years
061is watching that composite index and are they going to is it going to continue to go up where we're going to need to pay more more pennies on the dollar than we are now. And so I think that's that's a great question and something we're going to really need to focus on years to come. I will say that the local deposit index is set for two years. So we'll get it for this coming year and the following year as well and then then it will shift after that. There are some talks in the general assembly about doing a a three-year average on the local composite index to keep localities from having such a big hit um in their composite index as well. So, that's in the general assembly right now. I'm not sure how that's
062going to come out of the general assembly, but I know there's a lot of talks about it because a lot of school divisions, their local composite index went up this year. >> Thank you. Thank you very much for the presentation and I would say to the board, you know, we will right after this be having our first um the um hearing on that for us as a board. We'll have our public hearing um ask you all if you have any questions, please reach out to administration. Um anything that you need to clarify um I think that the takeaway for me is um keep an idea the main thing the main thing which is making sure that we're taking care of the compensation. >> Yes. and I and I great people. >> Yes. And I appreciate
063that because as you saw earlier in this presentation, lots of programs have been added over time, but it's the people running those programs and taking care of those programs that make the program effective or not effective. And so I think that's an important aspect and I appreciate you saying that um as well. And then the last thing I would say, unless you have other questions, would be, you know, we we're going to continue to watch uh the general assembly, look at those amendments, see what that's going to be, communicate um Mr. Goodwin and I, uh at the county will be communicating frequently um back and forth about what those changes look like um as they come out over the next month and then also what the healthcare looks like when that comes back. Uh and
064the county does that piece of it, so they'll give us the number when it comes in. All right. Thank you. Great presentation. >> Yeah. Thanks, Scott. >> So, as we come over, I'm still getting used to saying 26. We're talking about 27. 27 proposed budget. So, in terms of the public hearing um that we'll go ahead and open up public hearing for the proposed budget, folks willing to speak. And so, if you're as an individual up to three minutes, if you're representing the organization, minutes. So, the floor is open like if you don't mind stating your name and which district as well. >> Sure. Um, my name is Jessica Beck and I my kids go to JWT. I don't know what district that is. I should know that. Um, thank you for this opportunity to
065speak as a parent representing Louisa County Public Schools. I truly feel blessed to live in this county and to be a part of the school district. Louisa is truly special. The concept of the five C's is not just a catchphrase that sounds good. It's our lifeline. It's the pathway for success for our kids. Louisa knows the importance of setting all of our children up to succeed. And we know that success looks different for each child. I have two daughters, one in sixth grade and a fourth grader at JWT. Uh prior to this year, I was extremely biased and I knew that JWT was the best school in the county. Go trailblazers. But I've quickly become quite partial to the middle school as well. I'm learning that the vision and high expectations are just not at
066one school, but they are across the county and they're ingrained in every daily interaction at each school. Our schools have principles who lead day in and day out. They lead behind the scenes in ways that I may never see directly, but my family sees the benefit every single school year. My girls have teachers who truly care about them, who pour into them and grow them in ways that would make you proud. I feel that these teachers feel supported and in turn do their best work which benefits our children, my daughters. I love how our principles are hands-on in the good things and they're in the trenches day in and day out. Not long ago, I stopped by JW and saw Miss Julie Bryant shoveling mulch for the Gaga pit on the hottest day in the
067summer. Most mornings, she's the first face I see as I pull off pull up in the drop off line. And I was wrong on my cones this morning. Sorry. No matter the weather, Miss Bryant is there. During my time on the PTA, she would help us come up up with ways to celebrate the staff. She has an open door policy and is connected in our schools and our staff. I believe she leads our staff in the small and large ways and our staff and children are better because of her. The minds the mindset doesn't stop at the elementary school. We've had the same experience at the middle school. The administration continues with the same supportive tactics. They trust their teachers and empower them in amazing ways. The academics speak for themselves based on so scores,
068accreditation reports, local rankings amongst other school districts. Academics matter, but equipping my child to succeed in all areas of life is wildly important as well. The kindness club is a club that my daughter was asked to participate in. I'm biased again. She's a pretty kind kid and she's got a sweet disposition. But the the way this club has pulled her out of her shell and connected her into a new school is something I cannot put into words. The staff sees ways to engage our students and tap into their strengths and their weaknesses. The benefit of the kindness club will never show up on an so score or a benchmark test, and I'm okay with that. I'm a cheer coach for Louisa Youth Athletic Association, and we spent months practicing at the middle school. Most nights,
069Miss Harper was there welcoming us and opening up her school for us. She went out of her way to make us feel welcomed. She is the true face of a compassionate and kind leader. She takes the time to make kids feel seen, valued, and important. Middle school's tough, but our school has leaders who are visible, and available at all times. This is just a small look into what is happening every day, and this is my perspective. I'm sure there are stories like this all around our school district. I've always been appreciative of what happens in our normal classrooms, but what an exciting journey Louisa County Public Schools is is embarking on with the new CTE program. I'm thankful that Louisa thinks outside of the box to support all of our students. It's truly exciting to
070think about what doors will be open for our kids. Their lives will be better, their famil family's lives will be better because of our forwardthinking school system. We understand that college is not the right choice for every student, but they still must be equipped with skills to succeed and be successful in our society. In a world where computers are taking over, there will always be a need for welders, auto mechanics, cosmetologists, HVACs, nurses, and the list goes on. Thank you for seeing this this need and this understanding the value of this expensive endeavor. I truly could go on forever about the love I have for LCPS and each employee that we have. We have the best of the best and let's do our best to continue investing in them. I pray they feel supported by
071the parents, by their peers, their administration, and the school board every day. From a financial standpoint, let's ensure that they are fairly compensated. We want them to stay with Louisa and not feel they need to look elsewhere solely because of money. I hope you consider the pay increase that Mr. Straley is suggesting and see the benefit for our staff, our students, and our Louisa community. Truly, I thank you for your time and thank you for your service to our kids. >> I got called early this morning and threw it together, but truly it's from my heart. Thank you. So, anyone else would like to speak? So, thank you for not speaking this evening. We appreciate that as well. There being no one coming forward, we'll go ahead um and close the proposed budget hearing and
072we'll go on to our consent agend. >> Any further discussion? So, I have to ask my standard finance questions. All card and Amazon purchases have been reviewed and approved by finance. >> Thank you sir. Any other comments? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> Those motion passes. So we are on to7,784 by Mr. Any discussion? >> Yeah. And this these are funds that were left over from FY25. >> And so in order for the school nutrition department to access these funds, we would need to make this uh appropriation request. >> So any other questions? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> Those opposed motion passes. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion on that? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by
073saying I. >> Those opposed and we are with our action items. Journey to greatness update number eight. >> Dr. Greg. That's right. >> Good evening, Dr. Happy appreciation once again. Thank you. >> I'm very excited to share a few highlights from our journey to greatness. We'll start with human resources and Dr. Pony. Uh Dr. Pon and his team recently held a substitute teacher workshop at Jud Elementary School and Dr. Pon informs me that we added uh 12 potential subs into the phone. So I know our principles are very excited about that. Uh Dr. Pony also held multiple strategics trainings in an effort to train our subs and other staff members on appropriate usage. So thank you Dr. Pony for your efforts. The instructional team uh recently recognized teachers for exemplary work at the five C's.
074Uh Miss Maui Bry at JW was our most recent awardee. She received a certificate and a pin for her hard work in showcasing the five C's in her classroom. Uh Mr. Downey and Miss Spay facilitated a VCART training about reunification which was highly engaging and informative. Thank you team for putting that together. And Miss Gray planned and facilitated a math professional uh development workshop with the middle school math teachers. It was very well attended. It was led by uh math guru Skip Tyler and very beneficial for our teachers and their instructional practices. Mr. Bundick is always looking for opportunities for our students. Recently, he presided over the Virginia ACT conference in Richmond. Thank you, Mr. Bunick, for your leadership. And this is very awesome. Mr. Bows uh recently planned and sent JRTC students to their
075first drill competition, which is very exciting. So, thank you, Mr. Bows, for putting that together. And also we were recently awarded the VDOE innovation grant to enhance our AI practices across team LCPS. So thank you Mr. Barretts. Mr. Wallace and his team are all across team LCPS outside of clearing our facilities due to the snow and ice. Uh they installed new fencing for the uh prek playground over at JWIT. Uh they installed shelving at the middle school edition. And Mr. Wallace tells me they repaired uh the flush valve over at Moss Knuckles. And I'm Mr. The street's very grateful for that. >> Yes. Thank you. [laughter] >> A picture everybody will remember. >> That's right. Uh, moving over to technology. Mr. Children and his team is always getting it done. Recently, they moved phones into
076the new LCMS edition. They updated a cafeteria point of sale computer service and system, and they repaired copiers across team LCPS. Miss Herman is always leading the way. Recently she hosted Prince William County Public Schools to observe the middle school grabandgo breakfast and she also hosted a webinar on school nutrition pro of our school nutrition program to the American Heart Association. So thank you Miss Herman and and uh moving over to people personal services uh Dr. Alpurn uh started the water safety classes with students with autism uh recently. So that's a very gauging opportunity for our students to get those opportunities. >> Uh any questions at all? >> Yes. Go ahead. How many JRTC students do we have here? >> I think it's 50 47. >> 47. Fantastic. So >> on the drill team, >>
077there were 10 that went to compete and so um All right. So funny story. [laughter] >> I'll pass the mic over. >> Great question. So, we went there as an exhibition to just be a part to see what it's like because we've never competed before and we were told by other instructors that we probably shouldn't compete. Um, but after like 15 20 minutes of being there, they said, "Hey, you guys should compete." So, they threw them in with other school divisions. We weren't our own team. And then they've asked us to come back next week or next meet, which is in late February to compete as our own. So, we really went there just to watch. But again, they were so impressed with how advanced our kids are. And that's really because of the ASC
078club we've had here for the past 10 plus years. I don't think anyone expected us to be as prepared uh as we were. So it was really exciting and we're excited to go back and compete for real at the next one. >> Dr. Greg, the traveling road show for the substitutes. How did it go? I mean was it >> Dr. You want to speak about that? >> Yeah, the traveling I saw the you can do that already. >> Yes. So we're taking the sub workshops out to the schools. We've done it at JW. had seen success and today we had one at Thomas Jefferson and had 15 substitutes. >> Oh, wonderful. >> Both were impacted by the weather and we had over 25 signed up in both so we're coming up next. >> Oh, wonderful.
079>> Yes, sir. substitutes take the time that they have and just enjoy engaging the kids on what they want to do or do they have to follow a script? Most of our teachers I say all of our teachers prepare for the substitute teachers to come in in their absence. So there are lesson plans available for them to follow. >> Thank you Dr. Gray. >> Thank you very much. So, on our school safety task force update. >> Good evening, sir. >> Good evening, everyone. >> And congratulations on the school board day in the month. Uh, Mr. Harris, your wife wasn't the only one praying. My wife was not praying for the electricity. I was. I had no intention of going to some warming facility, and I'm thank God that we didn't have to uh to do
080that. But I also want to uh echo all the things that Mr. Australia and everybody's been talking about uh so eloquently tonight. Um the school board's done a fantastic job supporting us across the board for safety and security and we really appreciate that because that is the cornerstone of achieving our overall goals which is a world-class education. People need to be comfortable, students, staff, faculty, everybody, parents and we've done that and we we're continue to be working on that. Uh and just tying into what I was just saying it's never done. We're always looking at it and that's really the beauty of the safe school task force, our administrators and all our directors. People are looking at it constantly and we appreciate the the feedback and there's nothing too small that that you know not
081to point out. It's all important. So just a quick update. We'll talk about the SRO's the fall audit and a guest speaker that's coming back to us. The next safe school task force meeting is on the 19th. I think a couple of you will definitely be there. This slide looks the has been looked the same really for the past month or two, but I just received today that uh we have found a person to fill the the seventh position. They're already here and they've been hired. They're uh doing FTO patrol 100 hours, which means they'll probably be to us in the March time frame or so. But I always take that with a grain of salt because, you know, the comes with good news, sometimes you get bad news, and it just seems like recently
082people come, people go. Uh so we'll keep you appraised of whatever that's happening, but it's great to have that seventh person in the pipeline. On the audit, uh the folks did a great job from the safe school task force, we had 28 total items, but due the hard work of our administrators, our facilities folks, the IT, we closed almost all of them, we're down to really two of them. And the whole thing was very positive and the things that we found were very minor because we're constantly looking at it. So that's a good thing. So, here's the last two remaining items. For what it's worth, we're looking at the pedestrian walkway from the middle school towards the central office to kind of keep people safe. We put it on hold for a little while because
083as soon as the uh pods go away, we know a lot of the staff will be moving and the whole thing will be changing. So, we don't want to do anything that changes the parking lot to sure what it's really going to look like. Uh so, that should be, you know, we'll take a look at another month or so when all the ponds are gone. Uh and we're getting close to the point where we're going to put up that privacy fence. amazing me when I fill in Thomas Jefferson. You walk out the back door and it looks like you're in the backyard of another house over there. But that'll be coming here very shortly. And that should wrap up the whole assessment for the for the year. And then lastly, if you've been here long
084enough, you might have heard of Don Shamett. He came and talked to the safe school task force just a few years ago. Uh but we've been focusing on so many different things. Some of it's been with technology, but we know the cornerstone of our safety and security uh here in Louis County Public Schools really isn't about technology. It's about people, relationships, and connection. So, we figured it would be a good time to bring Don Chamett back because that's exactly what he's all about as a school safety expert is talking about those relationships and connection. And I love the topic that he's got for us before the heartache. when you have the ability to influence the outcome of what's going to take place, being very proactive and hopefully preventing anything from, you know, taking place such
085as some kind of traumatic incident. He's a great speaker and if you have that opportunity to be part of it, I'm sure everybody be welcome to come to the safe school task force to hear what he has to to say. That's it in a nutshell. Any questions or comments that I can handle answer? >> Any questions from the board? >> I'd like to just comment and say thank you for your continued leadership on the task force. We appreciate you keeping the eyes on it. Keep a razor sharp focus on our safety and security every day. We're grateful for it. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> So, next item is the Louisa County Middle School program of studies. >> Yes. Program of study. U Mr. Bunder, do you want to come up? >> Good
086evening. Um, we're very fortunate to have our agricultural audit back in the fall. All of our a teachers, middle and high, had a vertical alignment meeting and proposed to Dr. Harper and I about adding small animal care to the middle school curriculum. Uh, obviously with the new lab that we have there, Mr. TR had mentioned the new teacher. Um, so we feel like with the kind of a completion of that cycle, if we add small animal care like we have applied agricultural concepts to the middle school, that'll just give us another feather in our cap for especially for the sixth through 8th grade um curriculum. And we would like to move that to action unless there's any other questions. >> Folks have any questions? >> And it be again this will be a high school
087course getting high school credit taking it at the middle school. So always have my senior question. Will there be any additional cost for this? >> There will not be. All of our teachers are certified to teach that. So we would just absorb that in our current personnel. >> Sounds good. >> Any questions? Anybody motion in a second? Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Those opposed. So we can move that to action item. We have a second. >> Second, Mr. Any further discussion? Um, and I appreciate you all looking at as spending part of the program of studies and looking at it is not only expanding it to the high school but also bringing it down to the middle school. So, thank you all for your >> Thank you for
088that support. Appreciate it. >> All those in favor signif. >> I have it is approved. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We're on to our regular public comment. So, folks want to speak on any topic. The floor is open and ask if you identify yourself which district and have three minutes. Good evening. >> All right. Good evening. I'm Chris LS. I'm from the mineral district. Um, I know the hot topics here tonight are budget and of course always the uh construction updates, but given the recent severe weather, I felt I would be a little remiss if I didn't take a little my own time to come here tonight and say a special thank you to probably people that don't get recognized a ton except when they notice something's wrong. And that goes to the um
089building maintenance and facilities folks who have done a outstanding job clearing the snow and ice as well as I know administrators are out there helping and everything too. Probably building mains are trying to keep from getting hurt using tools and stuff. Um might have made their job take a little bit longer but everybody loves misery loves company when you're out there doing that. So um just the you know this stuff was you know extreme. It was out there with pickaxes and metal shovels and skid steers and and more aggressive equipment than is normally required here to move stuff with and with the extreme cold temperatures. I know when I drive around, I commute to commute for work about an hour every day and I work from home last Monday and Tuesday. and I got out
090to run some errands Tuesday afternoon and I just noticed I rode, you know, kind of the loop, made sure I could go to work on Wednesday like I wanted to to get away from my wife and kids. Um, but uh, but I rode, you know, I came through mineral. I looked over there at the high school and the middle school and I rode. I said, "Heck, they have really done some work over there." And then I rode, you know, I came by and came back by TJ on my way back to my house. I'm like, man, if if the roads would have been capable, and I'm assuming all the other schools were the same way. I saw half of them, so I can only assume the other half were just as good. They could have
091went to school on Wednesday if VOTE had the roads available. The work they did in those two days was utterly outstanding. I would say most of the schools that are still out now, it's because building maintenance didn't go above and beyond and make sure the schools were ready when the roads were ready. So, I just wanted to come and say thanks to everybody who had part in that and it was a great job. Thank you'all. [applause] >> Anybody else like to speak? Thank you for coming. Appreciate that. >> If not, we'll move on to reports. So, Mr. Harris, any questions that you have? >> You know, I have so many and um the only comment I had was I noticed with the facilities, not only did we take care of everything, added a few more
092that had been backlogged >> and threw in the pictures. So, that made my day. So, I would call that a royal flush. Um So, if there aren't any other um questions on the reports, upcoming meetings, our next regular board meeting is um March 3rd. I can't believe we're on 7 p.m. back here. And if I could just say one thing, I just want to say um school calendar wise, so we've missed would be officially six days. We've had an additional three remote learning days on that tomorrow. We're on a two-hour delay and hopefully no other weather would come tonight as well. But I want to say I say all that also to say Appreciate Miss Kohl's and the transportation team who spent the entire weekend out uh riding bus routes, communicating with VOTE, coming up
093with another plan for roads that we couldn't travel so we could pick those students up in another way. And that's really why we were able to have school today uh being able to make those adjustments. And so we want to commend Miss Kohl's and her transportation team as well uh for that and helping us get back in school. So really thank you, Miss Kohl's and your team. >> [applause] >> and uh and echo what Mr. La said about all the individuals with maintenance and all and custodians and administrators, everyone who was out who were out there um braving the really cold elements and really nasty conditions to make it happen. And we were excited to get our students back in school today and hopefully uh I think supposed to warm up. They're talking about it
094warming up. So, let's keep our fingers crossed and maybe we'll we'll get a couple weeks of school in year in a row. So, >> can we go ahead and solidify for next month end of March April when we >> the April board meeting? >> Yeah, we're going to solidify that at the next meeting just so we can make sure we can get the date. Um, we're trying to work through a date because spring break falls on our next board meeting date. So, we're going to try to get a date for that. Yes, sir. And I'll work continue to work on that. >> So, >> almost. So, so meeting that March 3rd and then the BSBA spring network forum is going to be back at the high school on March 17th. That'll be here before you
095know it. And that is everything. So, do we have a motion to adjourn? >> So, moved. >> All right. Second.